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The Daughters of Cain

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“Audacious and amusing . . . may be the best book yet in this deservedly celebrated series.”—The Wall Street Journal

It was only the second time Inspector Morse had ever taken over a murder enquiry after the preliminary—invariably dramatic—discovery and sweep of the crime scene. Secretly pleased to have missed the blood and gore, Morse and the faithful Lewis go about finding the killer who stabbed Dr. Felix McClure, late of Wolsey College. In another part of Oxford, three women—a housecleaner, a schoolteacher, and a prostitute—are playing out a drama that has long been unfolding. It will take much brain work, many pints, and not a little anguish before Morse sees the startling connections between McClure's death and the daughters of Cain. . . .
Praise for The Daughters of Cain
“Very cleverly constructed. . . Dexter writes with an urbanity and range of reference that is all his own.”Los Angeles Times
You don’t really know Morse until you’ve read him. . . . Viewers who have enjoyed British actor John Thaw as Morse in the PBS Mystery! anthology series should welcome the deeper character development in Dexter’s novels.”Chicago Sun-Times

“A masterful crime writer whom few others match.”Publishers Weekly
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from February 27, 1995
      The Inspector Morse of A&E and PBS's Mystery fame is clever, urbane and a fairly mild curmudgeon. The Morse of Dexter's novels is far pricklier, offering sharper, more morbid pleasures. In this 11th appearance, after The Way Through the Woods, the Inspector is aging badly: beers and cigarettes have taken a toll on his health, and he's harsher than usual with his assistant, Lewis, who himself is less forgiving on the page than in his dogged, loyal TV incarnation. Here, a retired don is murdered; then a former college custodian goes missing. The don frequented a prostitute who is the estranged stepdaughter of the custodian. The custodian, abusive to his wife and despised by his stepdaughter, was fired from the college for drug dealing. Morse is determined to tie the murder with the disappearance, but the chronology proves frustratingly elastic. Operating on the edge of the narrative is a terminally ill schoolteacher and her yob of a favorite pupil. As usual, Morse is both fearful and fascinated in his encounters with the fair sex, be they killers or suspects or witnesses; the hooker manages to crack open his fragile libido in a matter of moments. Dexter is fiendishly adept at the literary aside; even if his narrative style is sometimes mannered, he is a masterful crime writer whom few others match. Author tour.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 4, 1996
      The 11th Inspector Morse mystery finds the occasionally caustic detective investigating the murder of a retired academic.

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